For almost four years, the cost of Mr. Aziga's defence was borne by Legal Aid Ontario, the independent but publicly funded agency that administers the province's legal-aid program.[*]
But in January last year, when Mr. Aziga fired yet another lawyer and caused another delay, the agency pulled the plug on any further funding.
The Attorney-General's department reluctantly stepped in and agreed, as Judge Lofchick ordered, to foot the bill for what's called a Rowbotham order.
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